Poems in celebration of life, whose main themes are love, wine, and nature, belong
mostly to his early poetry, and form a considerable part of Sefer ha-Anak, sometimes
called Tarshish (the Hebrew letters standing for the numerical value of its 1,210
verses). Ending in homonymic rhyme, these poems are the first of their kind in Hebrew
literature. The work served as a model for medieval poets. It was first published
by Baron David Guenzberg (Berlin, 1886) and is included in Brody's edition (see below);
a commentary was written by Saul b. Abdallah Joseph in his book Mishbeẓet ha-Tarshish
(1926). Sefer ha-Anak is divided into ten chapters and written in the Arabic poetic
style tajnīs in which words recur in different stanzas but acquire a novel meaning
in each repetition. Other themes in the work are: rural life, infidelity in friendship,
old age, vicissitudes in luck, death, trust in God, and the beauty of poetry. ("Ibn Ezra, Moses ben Jacob." Encyclopaedia Judaica. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Fred
Skolnik. 2nd ed. Vol. 9. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007. 673-675. Gale Virtual
Reference Library. Web. 5 Aug. 2016.)
Papier geknickt und brüchig, stark verspannt. Die Ränder sind durchgängig mit durchsichtigem
Papier eingefasst, welches wiederum auch stark angegriffen ist.
